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Haruhi acquires a computer for the club by blackmailing the computer club using Mikuru's breasts lol. The end of the episode is getting serious though, with Yuki trying to explain to Kyon what she and Haruhi really are.

Yeah, a hillarious scene, poor Mikuru. I was waiting for Haruhi in a bunnysuit and animated it definitely looks great. :D

Sad thing is that they're really going to skip the most important events, there's quite a large timegap to the next episode. They're trying to ridicule the viewers, don't they (I can almost see a new wave of complaints because of that). :P

A nice detail, amongst many others, was the last scene with Yuki talking to Kyon in her room. The stuff happening in the background was a damn nice addition. With all those details it makes twice as fun to watch the show.

I also like the little details in the classroom scenes. Normally most shows are pretty bland in those, not so Suzumiya Haruhi. There's so much stuff going on while the viewer is concentrated on the main characters and action, makes me wonder whether most people actually manage to catch all of those details or miss all the beautifulness of the show. :(

Well, overall an 8 for this episode +1 for Haruhi dressed up (she's my goddess now for sure =P), makes it a 9. ;)

Koizumi still didn't get his appearance... On top of that, we're really heading into Taikutsu next. Unless they're going to skip the rest of Yuki's "introduction", the next episode will be completely filled by Yuki's intro part 2 + Koizumi appearance + baseball competition?

Other than Koizumi being missing (he was supposed to appear between the Bunnygirl and Yuki's intro event) this episode was also another faithful reproduction of the novel. Up to around page 120 I think?

I guess having one "intro" after another would be too much for first time viewers, so they decided to pop in an action event or two in between to buffer things? It makes sense.

High points of this episode include the excellent portrayal of Kyon's powerlessness in the club room. I got a good laugh from seeing him dash for his life out of the room when Haruhi began to strip down right in front of him. Mikuru's "No! Don't look!" was perfect too. ^^; And of course, the "computer aquisition" scene I've been talking about, perfect. "I'll spread the word out that all the club members here gang ra*beep*ed this child".

The door in Yuki's room... All of you who knows what's on the other side will probably notice it, but... that's one huge door. ^^;
The musics were all excellent as usual too, they all fitted the situation perfectly, especially Yuki's intro in the end.

Windows Media Player files hate my mac T_T Had to watch it on one of my school computers... Can't laugh as loud that way... anyway...

I like how they upped the zanniness of the blackmail scene with that wonderful dropkick from Haruhi and the way she buzzed around taking compromising pictures. But having Haruhi handle the camera instead of making Kyon do it (as in the novel) does make Kyon a little less 'complicit' in Haruhi's 'mistreatment' of Mikuru.

I smiled when they put in that extra interaction (I think it is...) between Kyon and Asakura Ryoko on the way to school.

I still don't believe next week is already moving out of the 1st novel and into the 3rd. Yuki still hasn't finished her explanations. I wonder how they'll handle Itsuki and Mikuru's intro's on top of going into the 3rd novel. Which reminds me.. I better hurry up with my reading

Oh.. and "Episode 7!!!" was a nice touch

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I have to hand it to KyoAni's direction with this series. It caught even the novel readers off-hand (with Vol3 out of the blue).

This really makes me wonder how far are we going to go in the novel's storyline? Season 1 ending with Vol4 (Disappearence) makes sense but...

I feel terribly bad for Mikuru. She looks to have suffered emotional traumas from the 2 events. Haruhi and her weirdness in animated form is beyond comprehension (and I think Kyon stops to make sense of her actions altogether for his own sanity)...

That's actually quite an important clue. Since Haruhi called the Taikutsu episode "episode 7", that hints at the possibility that Yuutsu (volume 1) will actually take 6 episodes to finish (makes sense page wise). So it's likely what they're doing is sliding in events from the later volumes to "space out" the "major" events that's going to happen in the latter parts of volume 1.

I have to hand it to KyoAni's direction with this series. It caught even the novel readers off-hand (with Vol3 out of the blue).

Well, we already know episode 4's title is going to be "Suzumiya Haruhi no Taikutsu" for a while now, so it's not that big of a surprise, but it's true that it's an odd move to all of the sudden jump to a later volume without even finishing "laying down the basic introductions". Well, Kyoani hasn't disappointed anyone so far, so we'll see.

So far KyoAni seems to be doing well with rearranging things, and it may be more appropriate for the animated version. Novels and anime are two completely different mediums for telling stories, of course...

Loved episode three~ More Haruhi craziness~ <3 And of course, I can't wait for the next episode. ^__^;

That's actually quite an important clue. Since Haruhi called the Taikutsu episode "episode 7", that hints at the possibility that Yuutsu (volume 1) will actually take 6 episodes to finish (makes sense page wise). So it's likely what they're doing is sliding in events from the later volumes to "space out" the "major" events that's going to happen in the latter parts of volume 1.

That's an interesting observation about 'episode 7'. Vol 1 definitely needs a lot more screen time to finish it off. Compressing it doesn't look like it would work as those events are really important. So they may actually be doing what I had asked earlier in a different thread - rearranging events to interperse between the major character intros/explanations.

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Or perhaps they're skipping non-critical events and planning on introducing them later in the form of DVD EP's? But that doesn't make sense considering the currently released schedule. Thus far (2-3 ep's in) the show has yet to disappoint, so I'm sure they've got something in mind.

I am absolutely not into moe-moe-puni-puni characters at all, and if it was just Mikuru on her own, I wouldn't have paid too much attention to her, but Haruhi is pushing it. Don't you feel sorry for the poor girl?!

I feel terribly ashamed at laughing so hard at her miseries! I know I shouldn't, but Haruhi is unbearably funny in addition to being mindlessly cruel.